Modernity and Ambivalence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernity and Ambivalence write by Zygmunt Bauman. This book was released on 2013-05-08. Modernity and Ambivalence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In this book, now available in paperback, Bauman argues that our postmodern age is the time for reconciliation with ambivalence, we must learn how to live in an incurably ambiguous world.
Maturity and Modernity
Maturity and Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maturity and Modernity write by David Owen. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Maturity and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maturity and Modernity is the first book to analyze Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault as a tradition of theorising and to chart the development of genealogy as a mode of critique. It provides clear accounts of the main ideas of Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault (as well as a useful Glossary) and illustrates the relations between these thinkers at methodological, substantive and politcal levels.
On Ambivalence
On Ambivalence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Ambivalence write by Kenneth Weisbrode. This book was released on 2012-02-24. On Ambivalence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A concise guide to ambivalence, from Adam and Eve (to eat the apple or not?) to Hamlet (to be or not?) to globalization (e pluribus unum or not?). Why is it so hard to make up our minds? Adam and Eve set the template: Do we or don't we eat the apple? They chose, half-heartedly, and nothing was ever the same again. With this book, Kenneth Weisbrode offers a crisp, literate, and provocative introduction to the age-old struggle with ambivalence. Ambivalence results from a basic desire to have it both ways. This is only natural—although insisting upon it against all reason often results not in "both" but in the disappointing "neither." Ambivalence has insinuated itself into our culture as a kind of obligatory reflex, or default position, before practically every choice we make. It affects not only individuals; organizations, societies, and cultures can also be ambivalent. How often have we asked the scornful question, "Are we the Hamlet of nations"? How often have we demanded that our leaders appear decisive, judicious, and stalwart? And how eager have we been to censure them when they hesitate or waver? Weisbrode traces the concept of ambivalence, from the Garden of Eden to Freud and beyond. The Obama era, he says, may be America's own era of ambivalence: neither red nor blue but a multicolored kaleidoscope. Ambivalence, he argues, need not be destructive. We must learn to distinguish it from its symptoms—selfishness, ambiguity, and indecision—and accept that frustration, guilt, and paralysis felt by individuals need not lead automatically to a collective pathology. Drawing upon examples from philosophy, history, literature, and the social sciences, On Ambivalence is a pocket-sized portrait of a complex human condition. It should be read by anyone who has ever grappled with making the right choice.
Modernity and ambivalence in Jewish national ideology
Modernity and ambivalence in Jewish national ideology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernity and ambivalence in Jewish national ideology write by Alexandra Samoleit. This book was released on 2008-02-13. Modernity and ambivalence in Jewish national ideology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Jewish Studies, grade: 1,0, University of Erfurt, language: English, abstract: Zygmunt Bauman's theory explains how modern nation states categorise and define their population, as well as "friends" and "enemies" based on ethnical, cultural and historical homogeneity. In this process ambivalent elements, especially minority groups. are eliminated from the nation. For Bauman this structural inheritent development is the main reason for the failed assimilatory aspirations of the German Jews in the late 19th and early 20th century. Zionism as reaction to denied national identity in the host countries shows in itself the same structural elements which caused the exclusion of the Jews from the German society. Jewish nationalists applied similar strategies and methods of stigmatisation and displacement during the Jewish nation-building process on the native population of Palestine and the oriental Jews to construct national order and identity.
Facing Modernity
Facing Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Facing Modernity write by Barry Smart. This book was released on 1999-02-23. Facing Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Barry Smart offers a wide-ranging and critical discussion of how issues of reflexivity, ethics and moral responsibility inform social and political thought. Through a critical discussion of the `ambivalent fruits' of social analysis, exemplified in particular by the work of Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Vattimo, Beck, Bourdieu, Goffman, Giddens, Levinas and Bauman, this book submits that an important responsibility of social enquiry today is to engage critically with the moral difficulties and ethical dilemmas which have arisen in relation to modernity.
